by St. Ann Staff | Jan 13, 2013 | Pastor's Pen
Support group… For 28 years and counting, I have been meeting with a few of my brother priests for fraternal support and challenge. In the early years, we used to complain about our pastors. In our later years, we complain about our associates (or lack therein.) And...
by St. Ann Staff | Jan 6, 2013 | Pastor's Pen
2013… Although I write this column before Christmas, you won’t be seeing it until after New Years. (You have to love holiday printing schedules for bulletin companies….) So it is Christmas-eve eve, and I finally started to listen to Christmas carols on Pandora. (FYI –...
by St. Ann Staff | Jan 6, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
Most Christians would not list King Herod among the good guys in the story of salvation. Though he was a great builder, and did rebuild the temple for the Jewish people, he also built many other temples to other gods in an attempt to pacify the people under his rule....
by St. Ann Staff | Jan 6, 2013 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Jan 1, 2013 | Sunday Homilies
My brother’s wife’s sister’s daughter (aka, my sister in law’s niece) gave birth to a new baby on Christmas day. (I have no idea what that makes her to me – a cousin twice removed by marriage? Twin sons of different mothers? Nothing?) Despite our best suggested names...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 30, 2012 | Pastor's Pen
End of the year thanks… I received three letters in the space of a few days from the Pontifical Mission Societies office of the Archdiocese of St. Louis. (Somebody was busy…) Msgr. Frank Blood thanked St. Ann parish for our generosity to the various mission appeals of...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 30, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
Henry Ward Beecher, the famed preacher and orator once said that the two most important gifts that parents can give to their children are roots and wings. It begins with roots, as it has to – to protect, love, nurture, and raise the most helpless infant in the animal...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 30, 2012 | Sunday Bulletin
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by St. Ann Staff | Dec 25, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
Christmas carols have a way of sticking with you, don’t they? You hear one line of a tune and “Frosty” stays in your head the whole day. Or a different one catches you and now your stomach can only think of ‘Chestnuts roasting on open fires’. Or you spend the entire...
by St. Ann Staff | Dec 23, 2012 | Sunday Homilies
No one has to tell small children to be excited this time of year. Virtually EVERYTHING has the possibility of making them jump up and down, clap their hands gleefully and twirl excitedly in circles. Christmas carols. Cookies. Beautiful ornaments. Lights on trees....
